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September 25th started out as a grey day and then it became a rainy day. Not so unusual in the Puget Sound area for late September but the garden of Laurel Creek Manor was where Jocelyn Byers and Stephen Randalf Jaeger were hoping to be married surrounded by the beautiful flowers and greenery. So they moved the ceremony indoors. We were warm and dry inside as the rain poured down outside.  A funny thing happened towards the end of the ceremony. Just as they were proclaimed husband and wife, the rain ceased and brilliant sunshine burst through the clouds. As Jocelyn and Stephen  walked down the aisle and came out into the daylight the sun kissed them on both cheeks with its rays.   Jocelyn and Stephen are one joyful couple and it was a pleasure to hang out with them and their friends. Monica Frisell and I had a great time photographing their day and we got a good number of wonderful moments preserved in these pictures. Here is a set of our favorites.

Here is a link to Jocelyn and Stephen‘s previous post of their Laurel Creek Manor Wedding.

Below is a mini-slide show with a larger selection of wedding pictures from Jocelyn and Stephen‘s wedding. Click on “toggle images” at top right to hide the thumbnails; to start just click on the right arrow on the image.

Leigh Anne Freeman was in a bar one day with some friends and they discussing whether she should cut her Fauxhawk. They could not agree so she decided to ask a stranger and she went up to the bar. The stranger she picked out from among the people at the bar happened to be Lindsey McKeen. Leigh Anne & Lindsey have been in a conversation ever since. In the middle of September they got married at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral on Capital Hill.  Both of their families and many of their friends were  in attendance on a wonderful clear September day as the summer continued to hold on. After the ceremony we made some pictures at the Cathedral and then headed downtown to the  Mayflower Park Hotel for the reception. What a wonderful celebration of their wedding. They had a room, actually a suite, upstairs that Leigh Anne negotiated with the hotel management when they booked the venue. Here a some of my favorite highlights from a wonderful wedding on a beautiful day.     

Here is a link to Leigh Anne & Lindsey’s previous post of theirSt. Mark’s Cathedral & Mayflower Park Hotel Wedding.

Below is a mini-slide show with a larger selection of wedding pictures from Leigh Anne & Lindsey’s wedding. Click on “toggle images” at top right to hide the thumbnails; to start just click on the right arrow on the image.

After a week of rain here in the Pacific Northwest, signaling the start of a cool wet winter, it was very pleasant to experience a beautiful, mild and partly sunny afternoon on Saturday, as Miracal Bjornstrom and Aaron Watson were married at DeLille Cellars. They held the wedding ceremony inside the tent as the beautiful ground were still quite soggy, but we did get to do some photography before the ceremony in different spots around the wonderful grounds and gardens in softly filtered  late afternoon sunlight. Outstanding food and service was provided by Blue Ribbon Cooking & Culinary Center. Here are a few images to preview the rest that will come after being edited and processed.

Back on August 20th I had the pleasure of photographing a fun and loving couple. Maureen Barrett and Mark Smith were married at St Thomas More Church, by her uncle, an Irish missionary priest who flew in from Brazil. Maureen’s mom is from Ireland and so were many of the guests attending. As a special treat at the reception at the Edmonds Conference Center a troop of Irish step dancers put on a performance. Monica Frisell once again was my associate photographer making many fine pictures.

Here is a link to Maureen and Mark’s Wedding Web gallery. Below is a mini-slide show with some more pictures from Maureen and Mark”s Wedding in Edmonds . Click on “toggle images” at top right to hide the thumbnails; to start just click on the right arrow on the image.

Last weekend Sarah and Steve were married at the Alexis Hotel, a very intimate and romantic hotel in downtown Seattle. How romantic?  Well, readers of Seattle Bride magazine rated the Alexis Hotel as Seattle’s “Best Place To Spend Your Wedding Night” in 2011. Not only did Sarah and Steve spend the night they had their wedding ceremony and reception there as well along with about 65 friends and family. Here are a few highlights I selected to preview the ones to come.

I really love this hotel with its exposed brick walls. Every room or suite seems unique. No cookie cutter layouts here. It feels more like you are in someone’s apartment than a hotel, with wonderful art from Pacific Northwest artists on all the walls.

The wedding cake topper was the one used by Steve’s parents at their wedding 50 years ago. Special thanks to Angie Casper, at the Alexis Hotel, Pat Stimac, Seattle Wedding Officiant and Amber Zbitnoff, my associate wedding photographer.